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Jolla phone with Sailfish OS hands-on

2013-11-29
hi I'm Andrew what CNET that I'm taking a look at the Dalek thermomix first phone from finished manufacturing yard running sailfish OS now the phone itself has an unusual design of this two-tone split going on making a look almost like two phones that squash together these backgrounds are interchangeable and have NFC chips built in allowing different colors to automatically change themes and settings when they're applied to your phone as well as it's amazing lime-green we've also got quite a nice orangey red and there's a white option available too now the phone has a 4.5 inch display with a 960 by 540 pixel resolution that is a little low and it does result in small tech some of the icons looking a little fuzzy it's quite a chunky phone but I think the stark design makes it quite attractive volume and power buttons are on the side but you're later sir there are no navigation buttons on the front to getting around sailfish OS requires you to use various gestures a double tap will wake the phone oh I'll show you notifications slide down and you'll see your recent apps and if you keep going further still that will show you all apps installed now to return home from an app you just swipe in from the left and that will place the app in the multitasking panel and going through menus simply swiping back will return you to the previous page it's a fairly attractive interface that there will be is big learning curve for those of you use of a simplicity of iOS now one of the big issues with any new operating system is a lack of apps the sailfish actually supports Android apps although you can't access the Google Play Store there are third-party app stores available where you can find titles like Spotify Skype also got Twitter LinkedIn and that you know you see YouTube there are plenty more available as well including whatsapp messenger and viber well you can't get everything you find but the funders that are already so many Android apps means it's got a better election band blackberry tenders now the elephone is certainly unusual and it might appeal to those of you looking for something a bit different from the usual iPhone and Android phone to see around phone is currently being shipped out today leaked through other customers across Europe for 399 euros although Yana couldn't say when it will be available anywhere else so make sure to keep it seeing it for all the latest news and leave your thoughts on the phone in the comments below I'm a Jew ho ho and this is the yalla phone running sailfish OS
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